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The Garden Magazine, February, 1921 
Oor a Garden 
of Gladioli = 
R ARELY are-flowers of the highest merit the most 
easily grown and surest of success. But such is 
the case with the gladiolus. If there is room 
for but a single flower in the garden, it should be this. 
As a cut flower it is supreme. Its spikes, frequently 
bearing twenty buds, if cut as the lowest opens and 
placed in water, will keep fresh until all open. A 
planting of bulbs, dug each fall and carefully stored, 
will constantly increase. 
Our fields of gladioli in Michigan and Illinois cover 
hundreds of acres. They include all the finest varieties, 
many originated by us, with a wonderful range of 
colors in innumerable combinations, and giant blossoms 
of all the beautiful types. 
The Cover of our 1921 Catalogue 
Illustrated Above 
reproduces in four colors a field of 
gladioli on our Michigan farm. 
50 Colored Plates of Flowers 
besides articles by national authori- 
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of 1909 , and the careful observer has no difficulty 
in guessing the significance of each thoughtfully 
given name. When we came to Quaker Lady, 
Mrs. Pleas told me that the beautiful, delicate 
flower was her mother’s namesake. 
My own garden is a perennial reminder of that 
red-letter morning spent with Mrs. Pleas, for in 
it grow more than five hundred varieties of Peony, 
of which not a few originated in the gardens of 
Spiceland. 
L. J. Germann. 
PROTECTING THE HERBACE- 
OUS BORDER 
IT TAKES quite a little discrimination to give 
1 adequate protection to tender Perennials, and 
winter them successfully. If one uses too much 
covering, a mild, damp spell will do as much dam- 
age as heavy freezing; a very practical method 
is to lay some heavy brush over the plants, 
putting the mulching material over this. The 
brush should be heavy enough to keep the 
protecting material up from the plants, and 
if it does get matted down with heavy rains or 
snow it should be shaken up a little. Campanu- 
las, Anemones, Anchusas, Delphiniums, and beds 
of Lilies winter best when protected in this way. 
A heavy mulching of manure may be applied 
to the beds of bulbs as soon as the ground freezes 
— not before — not only for protection, but as a 
food for the bulbs which continue to make roots 
practically all winter. 
The strawberry patch should also have a mulch 
of manure applied; and a light covering of salt 
hay over the plants — just enough to keep the 
sun off — is of benefit. A few sticks or heavy 
brush will prevent its blowing away. 
SOWING SWEET PEAS 
F OR the earliest flowers Sweet Peas must be 
sown as early as the ground can possibly 
be worked; and in the cold sections some sort 
of protection is necessary. The method out- 
lined below has been well tried. Seeds are sown 
in the open and in a trench, a board a foot 
wide being attached to light stakes on each 
side of the trench. When the ground freezes the 
space between the boards is filled up with dry 
leaves, and another board fastened to the upper 
edges of the sides, to keep out the wet; then 
litter may be placed at both sides of the trench, 
the depth of the boards. During mild weather 
the top board may be removed, also the leaves, 
to admit air to the plants. The trenches are 
prepared the same as for spring planting, 
but since one has more time to devote to the 
work the trench should be carefully prepared. 
Three feet is not too deep, and don’t forget the 
barnyard manure as the work of trenching pro- 
ceeds. 
